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Supper with the President    by Ian Mathie
Price: $6.99 USD. 73930 words. Language: English. Published by Mosaique Press  on June 12, 2013. Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs.

West Africa in the 1970s: volatile years immediately following independence brought the author in contact with a number of Presidents, Kings, Emperors, village and tribal chiefs and a succession of extraordinary people. Circumstances contrived to place him at dinner with four heads of state whose rule had immense impact, positive and negative, on their countries and on West Africa.
Split: An Insider's Guide    by Mila Hvilshoj
Price: $5.99 USD. 59560 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

The first comprehensive guidebook for Split. An insider's guide on where to eat, drink and party, what to see, how to get there, and a range of activities, day trips and practical info.
Two Old Fools - Olé!    by Victoria Twead
Price: $3.35 USD. 79780 words. Language: English. Published by AntPress.org  on November 24, 2011. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

Sequel to 'Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools'. Never believe that life in a tiny Spanish mountain village is predictable. Vicky and Joe have finished fixing up their house and look forward to peaceful days enjoying their retirement. Then the fish van arrives, and instead of delivering fresh fish, disgorges the Ufarte family. The peace of El Hoyo is shattered.
Swallows & Robins - The Guests In My Garden    by Susie Kelly
Price: $3.99 USD. 69500 words. Language: English. Published by Blackbird Digital Books  on December 5, 2012. Nonfiction » Travel » Essays & Travelogues.

A riotous account of the world’s worst housewife’s efforts at running two holiday homes in remotest France and her love/hate relationship with her guests.
Safari For Sanity    by Phil Gray
Price: $4.99 USD. 35560 words. Language: English. Published on June 24, 2012. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

An account of the author's travels in Southern Africa, told with whacky humor and unvarnished candor. The story weaves the thrill of the safari experience with poignant vignettes of contemporary African life and a scathing review of one country's despotic regime. The countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana & Swaziland.
The Interpreter’s Journal - Stories from a Thai and Lao Interpreter    by Benjawan Becker
Price: $4.99 USD. 67300 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2011. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

You will be surprised how much you can learn about Thailand, Thai culture, Thai history and Thai-Western relationship from this book.
Farther Up the Strait    by Wayne Lutz
Price: $5.99 USD. 57590 words. Language: English. Published on November 12, 2011. Nonfiction » Sports & outdoor recreation » Boating and sailing.

Boating and survival off the grid in coastal British Columbia, where mountains drop into the sea and people practice self-reliance and a different sense of purpose. Destinations on the Strait of Georgia, with contrarian views of the people and places of coastal British Columbia. A follow-up book to the original 'Up the Strait,' which constitutes a set of two books that can be read in either order.
Scot Free - A Journey from the Arctic to New Mexico    by Alastair Scott
Price: $0.99 USD. 129170 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2013. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

The first in the trilogy describing Alastair Scott's epic five-year journey around the world, much of it wearing a kilt. On and (sometimes very far) off the beaten track, he brings the unusual and the eccentric vividly before our eyes, giving many an unforgettable portrait of people with whom he shared, for brief moments or extended periods, his own delight in humanity in all its forms.
Blazing Bicycle Saddles    by James Clarke
Price: $2.99 USD. 62520 words. Language: English. Published on October 5, 2011. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

(5.00 from 1 review)
This is the very funny story of six South Africans - mainly writers - who, on a whim, decide to explore "Darkest Europe and bring back to Africa stories about its strange natives". On hired bikes (none had cycled since childhood) they began with a 1 000 kilometre ride down the Danube. Over the years many other regions were explored. The story is told by their not terribly good leader.
Following the Rhine gently upstream Rotterdam to Basel, a Cycle Tourist’s Guide    by Neil Forsyth
Price: $9.99 USD. 46010 words. Language: English. Published on October 19, 2011. Nonfiction » Travel » By region.

A guide to bicycling along the Rhine from its North Sea estuary to the Swiss border across the Netherlands, through western Germany and eastern France.